The rock successions of the Chia Gara Formation were studied at two surface sections (Barsarin and Rania) from North-Eastern Iraq. detailed sedimentological study reveals that formation consists basically thin-bedded black limestone, dolomitic marly bituminous shales, Ammonitic limestone. petrography results showed various petrographic components as Ammonites, calcispheres, radiolarian, silicat...

Recent analyses of the small subunit ribosomal DNA (srDNA) from dinoflagellate symbionts of cnidaria have confirmed historical descriptions of a diverse but well-defined clade, Symbiodinium, as well as several other independent symbiont lineages (Rowan 1991; Rowan and Powers 1992; Sadler et al. 1992; McNally et al 1994). Dinoflagellates also occur as intracellular symbionts in a number of pelag...

This work introduces one of the first palynostatigraphic study conducted on formations from Eocene and overlying lowermost Miocene successions (Cunga Quifangondo formations) exposed in Onshore Kwanza Basin, Angola. To improve Cunga age, new biostratigraphic correlations palaeoenvironmental interpretations based qualitative quantitative analyses organic walled dinoflagellate cysts sedimentary ro...

Siliceous sedimentary rocks of Tertiary age were recovered at three of the nine sites drilled during Leg 31 (Table 1). Only relatively small amounts of lithified material were retrieved, but these rocks are particularly interesting because they include three distinct types of siliceous rock and because each type occurs with a distinct sediment lithology. The kinds of rocks sampled are (with lit...